may 2013

• The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. by Nichole Bernier (debut novel)

april 2013

• All This Talk of Love by Christopher Castellani (novel)
• All That Is by James Salter (novel)

march 2013

• Tenth of December by George Saunders (stories)
• This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (novel)

february 2013

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (debut novel)
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (debut novel)
• Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwrtz (novel)
• Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt (novel)

january 2013

• Seasons in Love by Dave Malone (poetry)
• Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith (debut novel)
• The News from Spain by Joan Wickersham (stories)
• Train Dreams by Denis Johnson (novella)

december 2012

• The Round House by Louise Erdrich (novel)
• May We Be Forgiven by A.M. Homes(novel)

november 2012

• Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream by Neil Young (debut memoir)
• Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Helene Cixous (essays)
• The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai (novel/debut)

october 2012

• A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter (novel)
• Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (letters)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (debut novel)
• Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins (stories)

september 2012

• The Physics of Sunset by Jane Vandenburgh (novel)
• Winter Journal by Paul Auster (memoir)
• My Call to the Ring by Deirdre Gogarty & Darrelyn Saloom (memoir/debut)
• The Stations of Solitude by Alice Koller (journal)
• Game of Secrets by Dawn Tripp (novel)
• Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by Thomas Merton (memoir/journal)

august 2012

• The Riders by Tim Winton (novel)
• A Vacation on the Island of Ex-boyfriends by Stacy Bierlein (stories/debut)
• Shout Her Lovely Name by Natalie Serber (stories/debut)
• In the Land of Dreamy Dreams by Ellen Gilchrist (stories/reread)
• The Annunciation by Ellen Gilchrist (novel/reread)

july 2012

• Straight Man by Richard Russo (novel/did not finish) (108 of 391 pgs)
• The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards (nonfiction/did not finish) (54 of 274 pgs)
• The Infinite Tides by Christian Kiefer (novel/debut)
• Unconventions by Michael Martone (craft)
• Four for a Quarter by Michael Martone (book)
• The Burning House by Paul Lisicky (novel)
• Florida by Christine Schutt (novel)

june 2012

• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese [658 pages!] (novel/debut)
• Nobody Wakes Up Pretty by Diane Lefer (novel)
• Into This World by Sybil Baker (novel)
• Michael Martone by Michael Martone (fiction)
• Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns (essays)
• When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams (essays)
• After This by Alice McDermott (novel/did not finish) (103 of 279 pgs)
• The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson (novel/debut)

may 2012

• Normal People Don’t Live Like This by Dylan Landis (stories/debut)
• The Education of Harriet Hatfield by May Sarton (novel)
• The Art Lover by Carole Maso (novel)
• The Bradshaw Variations (novel)
• The Bradshaw Variations [nope, not a mistake--finished the last page and turned to the first to read it again] (novel/reread)
• The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin (novel)

april 2012

• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (novel)
• Wild by Cheryl Strayed (memoir)

march 2012

• Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston (novel)

february 2012

• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright (novel)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (novel)

january 2012

• Volt by Alan Heathcock (stories/debut)
• Torch by Cheryl Strayed (novel/debut)

december 2011

• So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (novel)
• The Empty Family by Colm Toibin (stories)

november 2011

• An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski (nonfiction)
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (novel)
• We The Animals by Justin Torres (novel/debut)

october 2011

• Notes Home From a Prodigal Son by Douglas Glover (essays)
• The Court of Common Pleas by Alexandra Marshall (novel/reread)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (novel/reread)

september 2011

• No Place on Earth by Christa Wolf (novel)
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (novel)

august 2011

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (novel)
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (novel/reread)
• Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler (novel/reread)

july 2011

• Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon (novel)
• Natural Causes by Mark Cox (poetry)

june 2011

• Elle by Douglas Glover (novel)
• The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen (novel/debut)
• The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow (novel/debut)

may 2011

• The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch (memoir)
• Reality Hunger by David Shields (nonfiction)

april 2011

• This Won’t Take But A Minute, Honey by Steve Almond (essays and stories)
• The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera (craft)
• A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit (essays)
• Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston (novel)
• Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann (stories)

march 2011

• The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley (stories and a novella)
• Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (craft)
• How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie May Fowler (novel)

february 2011

• Under the Mercy Trees by Heather Newton (novel/debut)
• Wrecker by Summer Wood (novel)

january 2011

• Beloved by Toni Morrison (novel/reread)
• The Gathering of My Name by Cornelius Eady (poetry/reread)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (novel)
• Showing & Telling by Laurie Alberts (craft)

december 2010

• Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (novel)
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (novel/did not finish)

november 2010

• Old Border Road by Susan Froderberg (novel/debut)
• Evocative Objects edited by Sherry Turkle (essays)
• Coming to Writing and Other Essays by Helene Cixous (essays)
• By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham (novel)
• Journeyman’s Wages by Clemens Starck (poetry)
• Shakespearean Design by Mark Rose (craft)
• Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (novel/reread)

october 2010

• Jesus’ Son by Dennis Johnson (stories/reread)
• Words Overflown by Stars edited by David Jauss (craft essays from the Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty)
• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler (novel)

september 2010

• Nothing To Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes (memoir)
• The Art of Time in Fiction by Joan Silber (craft)
• Rhythm in the Novel by E. K. Brown (craft)
• A Doctor’s Visit: Short Stories by Anton Chekhov (stories)

august 2010

• The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart (novel/debut)
• Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight (biography)
• Stiltsville by Susanna Daniel (novel/debut)
• Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (novel)
• A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert (novella)
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter (short novel)

july 2010

• Alone With All That Could Happen (craft) by David Jauss
• Last Rites by David Jauss (novella)
• You Are Not Here by David Jauss (poetry)
• Black Maps by David Jauss (stories)
• My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (novel/debut)

june 2010

• Mrs. Somebody Somebody by Tracy Winn (stories/debut)
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike (novel)
• Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom (stories)

may 2010

• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (novel/reread)
• Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott (novel)
• Verging on the Pertinent by Carol Emshwiller (stories)

april 2010

• The Maytrees by Annie Dillard (novel)
• If I loved you, I would tell you this by Robin Black (stories/debut)
• More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson (stories/debut)
• Between, Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson (novel)
• Evidence by Mary Oliver (poetry)
• A Kind of Flying by Ron Carlson (stories)

march 2010

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (nonfiction)
• How Fiction Works by James Wood (craft)
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (stories)
• Love in Mid Air by Kim Wright (novel/debut)

february 2010

• Love and Summer by William Trevor (novel)
• Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel (stories)
• Edinburgh by Alexander Chee (novel/debut)
• Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace (essays)

january 2010

• Devotion by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
• California Transit by Diane Lefer (stories)
• Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (stories)

december 2009

• Mentors, Muses, & Monsters edited by Elizabeth Benedict (essays)
• The Signal by Ron Carlson (novel)

november 2009

• An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay (novel/debut)
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (novel)
• Things You Should Know by A. M. Homes (stories)

october 2009

• A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers (poetry)
• Snoop by Sam Gosling (nonfiction)
• A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (novel)
• The Sweet In-Between by Sheri Reynolds (novel)
• poemcrazy by Susan Goldsmith Wooldrigde (craft)
• wildlives by Monique Proulx (novel)

september 2009

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (novel)
• Speak Low by Carl Phillips (poetry)

august 2009

• That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo (novel)
• Fearless Confessions by Sue William Silverman (craft)
• The Music Room by Dennis McFarland (novel/debut/reread)

july 2009

• This is Water by David Foster Wallace (essay)
• The Way to Write by John Fairfax and John Moat (craft)
• The Best American Short Stories 2008 edited by Salman Rushdie (story anthology)

june 2009

• Thinking About Memoir by Abigail Thomas (craft)
• The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher (novel)
• The Writer’s Notebook (craft)
• The Vagrants by Yiyun Li (novel/debut)

may 2009

• The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan (novel/debut)
• When the Piano Stops by Catherine McCall (memoir)
• Don’t Cry by Mary Gaitskill (stories)
• Stop-Time by Frank Conroy (memoir)

april 2009

• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (novel)
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
• The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King (novel)

march 2009

• House of Light by Mary Oliver (poetry)
• The Secret Currency of Love edited by Hilary Black (essays)
• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (nonfiction)
• Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (novel/reread)

february 2009

• A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by YiYun Li (stories)
• An Accidental Light by Elizabeth Diamond (novel/debut)
• Safe Suicide by DeWitt Henry (essays)
• Plant Dreaming Deep by May Sarton (memoir)
• Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart (poetry)

january 2009

• Dirt Music by Tim Winton (novel)
• The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts (nonfiction)
• Light in August by William Faulkner (reread/novel)

december 2008

• Last Night by James Salter (stories)
• Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (reread/novel)
• The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather (novel)

november 2008

• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (autobiography/audio)
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison (novel)
• In the Fold by Rachel Cusk (novel)
• Home by Marilynne Robinson (novel)

october 2008

• To Kill a Mockingbird (novel/audio)
• November 22, 1963 by Adam Braver (novel)
• The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk (novel)
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (novel/reread)
• A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk (memoir)

september 2008

• The Country Life by Rachel Cusk (novel)
• The Temporary by Rachel Cusk (novel)
• Falling Through Space by Ellen Gilchrist (essays/reread)
• Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk (first novel!)

august 2008

• Why Write?  by Paul Auster (essays)
• The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (novel/debut)
• Picturing the Wreck by Dani Shapiro (novel)

july 2008

• Walking to Martha’s Vineyard by Franz Wright (poetry)
• Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet (essays)
• Light in August by William Faulkner (novel)
• Strong is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell (poetry)
• Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (novel)
• The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso (memoir)

june 2008

• The Heart is a Loney Hunter by Carson McCullers (novel/reread)
• The Problem with Paradise by Lesley Dahl (novel/YA)
• Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos (novel)
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (memoir)
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje (novel)
• Flight by Sherman Alexie (novel)
• Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (poetry)

may 2008

• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (stories/linked)
• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (novel)
• A Dangerous Age by Ellen Gilchrist (brand new novel!)
• The Spy who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre (novel)

april 2008

• Animal Crackers by Hannah Tinti (stories/debut)
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (novel)
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin (novel)
• The Gateway by T. M. McNally (stories)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (novel)

march 2008

• White Noise by Don DeLillo (novel)
• Falling Man by Don DeLillo (novel)
• Playing with Fire by Dani Shapiro (novel)

february 2008

• Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro (memoir)
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo (novel)

january 2008

• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (novel)
• Five Skys by Ron Carlson (novel)
• Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson (craft)
• The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter (craft)
• Fugitive Blue by Dani Shapiro (novel)

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